International Focus Magazine Vol. 2, #10 | Page 28

seen on the scene
National Day of the Republic of Indonesia
On Friday October 6, 2017 iF Magazine was seen on the scene of the Indo-
nesian Consulate-Houston for the 72nd Anniversary of Independence.
Indonesia had been a Dutch colony for over 300 years when a group of revo-
lutionaries declared independence on August 17, 1945. It took Indonesians
four years of diplomacy and armed struggle before their independence was
formally granted by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. Despite the granting
of independence in 1945, it wasn’t until 2005, that the Netherlands declared
that they had decided to accept the date of 17 August 1945 as the date of
Indonesia’s independence. Indonesia is an archipelago of over 17,000 islands.
It is the world’s fourth most populous country.
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